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Congratulations to Team Fitzgerald in winning this year's Colton Bonspiel. The event was held February 8th and 9th and is SCC's women's club championship! Charlene Fitzgerald led her team of Becky Trousil, Meghan Muller and Karen Denike to the win over Sara Johnsen's rink of Fay Navratil, Jane Falconer, Cathy Faulkner in the final event on Sunday.

And congratulations to all of the event winners and finalists:

Colton (A Finals)
Winner: Team Fitzgerald: Charlene Fitzgerald, Becky Trousil, Meghan Muller and Karen Denike
Finalist: Team Johnsen: Sara Johnsen, Fay Navratil, Jane Falconer, Cathy Faulkner

Hilborn (B Finals)
Winner: Team Szymaszek: Dorothy Szymaszek, Kathy Brown, Megan Boyak/Maureen Rice, Roberta Feiden
Finalist: Team Dolins: Laura Dolins, Paula Lancaster / Christina Hall, Denise Cashmere, Jackie Donegan

Szymaszek (C Finals)
Winner: Team Adair: Sue Adair, Lisa Filkins, Mary-Sue Reed, Suzanne Hartz/Yelena Leszczynsky
Finalist: Team Burgess: Shirley Burgess, Carol Munro, Jackie Shaw, Nancy Gaines

Thank you to Paula Lancaster for running this great event!

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Congratulations to Mike Stefanik, Andrea Warr, Dion Warr, and Lisa Nieradka on winning the 2014 Grand National Curling Club (GNCC) Mixed Championships. The event was hosted by the Chesapeake Curling Club in Easton, MD from February 6-9, 2014.

Six teams entered the tournament, vying for the opportunity to represent the GNCC region at the upcoming 2014 USCA Mixed National Championship in Wisconsin Rapids, WI from March 15-22, 2014. The championship is being hosted by the Tri-City Curling Club and the venue is the South Wood County Recreation Center, a hockey rink that will be converted into 4 sheets of quality curling ice. Curlers were from the Ardsley, Pittsburgh, Plainfield, Potomac, Schenectady, Triangle, and Virginia curling clubs.

The first three games were very close, all coming down to the final stone. The competition was very good but Team Stefanik prevailed in all five round robin games. The group of volunteers and officials at Chesapeake did a wonderful job and the ice conditions were very good. Full standings, rosters, and linescores from the playdowns can be found on CurlingZone.

The team is excited about their trip to Nationals where they will play against nine other teams from the various curling regions across the US. Mike has been to US Club Men's Nationals in 2010 and Andrea won silver in the 1996 Junior Nationals. This will be the first time at Nationals for Dion and Lisa. Good luck in Wisconsin!

Hall is the C.R.U.E. Champ!

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SCC is pleased to announce that Team Hall has won this year’s C.R.U.E. Bonspiel. Christina Hall led her team of Eileen Kelliher and Jackie Shaw to the win in this event with a total of 21.5 points. Team Streeter came in a close second with a total of 20.25 points. Sue Streeter led her team of Lori Millet and Megan Boyak in an impressive bid at the win.

The C.R.U.E. is a one day event for women junior skips of SCC with two 6-end games. It is a “point spiel” so the winners are determined by the combined points for both games. The sponsors of the C.R.U.E. pin are Claire Brunkhorst, Ruth Kerr, Undine Fiedler, and Evelyn Holmblad. They were the first SCC women to win the Empire State Women’s Bonspiel and have been long time supporters of women’s curling at SCC.

The other teams that competed in this event were:

Team Lesczynsky: Yelena Lesczynsky, Sue Adair, Meghan Muller
Team Shank: Anna Shank, Fay Navratil, Linda Austin
Team Shagoury: Amanda Shagoury, Paula Lancaster, Jackie Donegan
Team Gaines: Nancy Gaines, Amanda Vickerson, Ev Kauffman

Thank you to all ladies who took part in this wonderful event and thank you to Lisa Filkins for running the event this year and to Nicole Ladopoulos for providing the ladies with an amazing lunch!
 

Holbrook Wins the Stants

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Congratulations to Team Holbrook in winning the 2014 Harry Stants Memorial Bonspiel. This in-house bonspiel is for junior level skips. Tom Holbrook led his team of Ron Holbrook and Brent Lehman to victory in an extra end over Sebastian Elliot's rink of Vic Temple and Doug Kerr.

And congratulations to all of the event winners and finalists:

Stants: A Event
Winner: Tom Holbrook, Ron Holbrook, Brent Lehman
Finalist: Sebastian Elliot, Vic Temple, Doug Kerr

Sheehan: B Event
Winner: Brandon Chew, Tom Lancaster, Paul Clarke
Finalist: Jeff Brewster, Steve Wood, Doug Spring

Link: C Event
Winner: Jim Holmblad, Dan Navratil, Phil Falconer
Finalist: Keagan Shaw, Bob Samaniuk, Mike Call

Leonard: D Event
Winner: Karl Andersen, Lou Horton, Stan Stoklosa
Finalist: Kevin Gomes, Jeff Howles, Jeff Faulkner

Great job gentlemen! Thank you to Peter Drechsler for running this event.